Sam's Proper MX-3 - LT Turbo project *Parting out*
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Nice :cheers:
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Oooh fancy. Looks like they'll sit well!
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What really sealed the deal was the Wife yakkin up on the passenger seat Friday night! The stench wont go away so the old seat has to go,lol
Yeah my workmate has the leather vvti seats in His Celica so a quick measure up shows the mount points are similar enough to make some brackets up and use the Toyota sliders.
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@b3c328a668=youdirtyfox:
What really sealed the deal was the Wife yakkin up on the passenger seat Friday night!
That shit never comes out.. good choice.
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So far we have tried: Fairy liquid, bleach, fabreze, steam cleaning & dry shampoo! Nada.
Women > know your limits!!! :bigok:
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And here there are, sitting cosy in my front room for now! Very happy as they are mint for £140 delivered for the pair was a real steal.
Have stripped the back of one to take the base into work and start making the brackets, but…
Currently battling out a few running issues which are holding up the real mods. I wanna make. Snapped two alternator belts in a matter of weeks (Lesson learnt, don't trust a certain garage anymore after they put the belt on without even loosening off any of the tensioners! wanna know how they did that tbh?!)
Was in a rush as had to get the Dentist..I put a new belt on the weekend and elimanated all the horrible screeching, my sump plug has started weeping and I'm loosing water from my coolant system somewhere,
New rad. on the way so I can cut that from the equation and if that doesn't solve it I'm going to simplify the system even more with an inline filler neck and coolant catch can
as I cannot see coolant leaking on the floor so it must be evaporating into steam somewhere.MOT next month so will touch and go as to whether I will get the new seats in for that or just afterwards depending on how arsey the brackets are to fab up.
As you can see not a million miles away, but enough for the need of some custom feet on the celica subframes to match
up to the mx floorpan. The rear mount closest to the handbrake is sidemounted so that would need to come off anyway.
3mm mild steel feet cut and ready for marking, drilling and folding.
Hacksawing off the celica feet ready for new ones to be bolted down.
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As well as the seats I'm also reworking my cooling system. The repairs that I had done twice to the missing top radiator expansion spigot are failing again, this is where I'm loosing coolant from so S/H radiator has been bought (98> Ford focus 1.8 Deisel TDDI/TDCI)with all spigots intact this time. Have a new working fan to go in that the car runs as it should.
Going to be running a coolant recovery system with a filler neck in the top radiator hose (lucky I kept the old one)
and a catch bottle to be tucked away somewhere. Have a 0.9 bar double seal cap coming also which I can change
to 1.1 if I want when going F/I.
Been a shame to say goodbye to my alu. expansion pot and stainless top hose but engine bay will look a lot tidier this way. Once I have fixed all the little running problems I'm going to be hacking up some side skirts I have had for ages that no one wants to buy so I figure I will put them to good use and try and create some front spats and some add ons for the rear spats.
Just need some good wheather as I have far too many car parts in the flat now, although it is quite cool having wheels and seats about the place…
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With a few gaps in the rain today I went out and affixed the new fan to the rad, then it was time for something a bit more fun then fixing broken shit, and that was to break some shit…
Remember those full length side skirts I have, well not full length anymore after I hacksawed the end off. Booom front mini spats!
Got hold of a set of these also to see if they will work as an add on to the euro mini rear spats!
Also note stock wing mirrors back on, and the generally filthiness of my car…
Turns out the 323 spats fit better on the front :D
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New radiator, working fan, OE top hose with filler neck and tucked coolant overflow tank fitted today.
Running well so far, no leaks will empty and top up with anti freeze tomorrow. Need to make some sort of rad. support too now.
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New seat feet are coming together nicely, got these bolted on today and will be drilling the main holes ready to be fitted then will make a start on the rears. On a side not I'm in talks with a company who refurbish seat belts and can re-webb them to any colour, might go with dark red and get them to put a Celica belt clip on to save me swapping over the seat belt stays.
Fronts now bolted, which means the rears can be exposed so I can get working on them now!
Also on the agenda for this bank holiday weekend:
MAF clean.
New spark plugs.
Forte fuel treatment.
Ramair foam cone filter (stainless one has gone rusty!)
Replace perished concertina air pipe with aluminium item I was saving for the turbo.
New cat. for the impending MOT.
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Car is still off the road for pre MOT jiggery! Only thing left to do is fit the CAT
up tomorrow.So while i'ts stationary I'm fitting out the interior a little with suede gaiters, carpeted (speakerbox materiel) centre console, and additional armrest with cup holders. Took a punt on this 01>03 Civic handbrake gaiter, seems to slide over original rubber handle quite well.
Sneak peak!
Trim fixed on.
Trimmed & tidy.
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Car now back on the road as of Monday and running like a new engine after my mini tune-up. Throttle response, idle and MPG have been improved significantly, would highly recommend the MAF clean and fuel treatment if your engine is running a bit lumpy. The main reason though for rough running was one the plugs on the AEM was about to fall out as they are not a great clip in fit, plugs now secured and ECU velcroed to the carpet!
Speeking of carpet, time to crack on and furry up the last of the centre console and bolt on the monolith that is the double decker cup holder armrest.
Plate for it to sit on.
Gunna be cruising in comfort, RV style…also up for the furry treatment will be sun visors, kick panels by the ECU and up the side of the dash.
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Good work! I like the fur, once that trim went on it looked brilliant.
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Yo cheers Marc I think that fur will find it's way to a few other places Im sure :)
OK so the double decker armrest did not work it's way to high and get's in the way of your gearshifting! would fine as a standalone though without the stock item in place but that just looks a bit weird…
So in times like these there is only one thing for it, deconstruct & reconstruct as was not letting go of cup holders that easily..
Boooom!
Another nights work and it's was fluffed a good 'un.
Installed.
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With fitting different make seats to a car you always have the issue of the seat belt buckles not being the same. Instead of ripping apart the buckle connection off the MX-3 seats which are still in use I am going to be retro fitting a whole new seat belt assy to the car complete with matching buckle to the Celica seats.
Pair of Securon 500/15 belts purchased:
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Car failed MOT today!
High Lambda.
Inner wear on both front tires.
Rear service brake inefficient.
Rear fog not working.
ABS light not working.So I think the big decision has been made to take Her off the road for a few months fix those issues myself which including painting the new wheels with some new rubber , get the Celica seats & seat belts in and fit the Turbo over the Summer…. 8)
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At least it will give you time to sort ye-old-turbo out bud.
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ahhh bugger. Nothing too horrific there hopefully. Inner wear haha price of lowz?
Sounds good, make sure you don't neglect it!
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Aye bit of a pisser, but on the flip side a blessing in disguise really and the fail could of been worse structurally!
Going to shoot for the half price retest in ten days time if I can parts and shit together in time. Then it will be SORN once passed as the tax is out end of the month.
The Wifes Sukuzi Ignis is getting my old wheels btw , Gem wont have the lowz though…
Neglect is a bit of a worry yeah, but no worries I will keep pushing on as its what I enjoy doing & now the evenings are drawing out, plus we have a new welder @ work who speak the lingo this time :D
Couple of months tops I hope and She will be just as I want it. Stanced & Turboed.
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@5359f1cf0e=youdirtyfox:
Just noticed you have on a Euro style rear bumper! Been wondering for sometime what a smaller plate (like USA style would look like in the wider space). This is the only mx-3 bumper that removes the side markers, that's why I was interested in it.
Anyways i was going to comment that I like the red/yellow theme you have going on with the yellow rear license plate, yellow rear indicators in the taillights and the yellow fender side markers. Have you thought about getting a set of the yellow front lights for the turn signals under the headlights? Can you use those with MOT?
